Hello All,Bermuda We’re better than halfway through Jan which means spring is on the way. Michelle, Kelsey, Francis and I met Beekeeper #5 in Bermuda over the Christmas Holidays. His name is Randolph Furbert, 80 years old, and he has usurped my friend Perry as the neatest beekeeper in the world. Sorry Perry, you’ve been relegated to second. A true putterer, in addition to beekeeping, Randolph has captured some of the local wild chickens for eggs and has a banana plantation. When I grow up, I want to be like him.Scotian Bee Bee School I want to thank all who participated last year. Together, we raised $600 for the Matthew 25 Food Bank here in Windsor. They are very grateful for the support that they receive. In order to continue to support this great cause, we are going to raise our fee to $30 which is still reasonable for lunch and a couple of hours of entertainment. Michelle and I sat down and ironed out our calendars with the following dates: 1 - 11 April – Beginners, Dress warm 2 - 9 May – Beginners 3 - 20 June – Beginners 4 - 11 July – Beginners 5 - 25 July – Harvesting/Extracting – an opportunity here for beekeepers to bring their honey for extraction 6 - 15 Aug – Beginners 7 - 29 Aug – Harvesting/Extracting – another opportunity here for beekeepers to bring their honey for extraction 8 - 12 Sep - Winterization The Beginner Courses are an excellent way to see if you are interested in bees. See below for the NSCC course which is much more advanced. To sign up, the preferred method is email. We will send you an invoice and your spot will be reserved with payment. Please pass this to your friends. If the dates don’t work for you and you can gather up a dozen people or so, we can probably sort out a date with you. A weekend will probably be difficult but a week day or early evening might work.Nova Scotia Community College For those who don’t know, I will be instructing on an upcoming NSCC course, Introduction To Beekeeping, at their Kingstec Campus in Kentville. See the dates and topics below. This will be an in-depth course covering everything from legislation, safety, diseases and pests. It will come with a detailed handbook that I am still working on. Dates: 1- 14 Mar 2015 @ NSCC. Challenges, Safety, Importance, Legislation 2- 28 Mar @ NSCC. Equipment, Acquiring Bees, Record Keeping 3- 18 Apr @ NSCC. Handling Bees, Diseases, Yearly Maintenance 4- 2 May @ NSCC. Beekeeping As A Business 5- 16 May @ Scotian Bee. Conduct Spring Maint, Prepare for Pollination 6- 30 May @ Scotian Bee. Splitting, Nucs and Package Bees 7- 13 Jun @ Scotian Bee. Wax Processing and Harvesting Here is their website, the course is so new that it is not posted yet. http://www.nscc.ca/explorenscc/campuses/kingstec/ The cost has yet to be determined but I suspect that it will be quite reasonable. You can sign up at any NSCC campus. If this goes well, I can see them expanding it to other areas in the province for which I’d be interested in travelling to do.Minister of Agriculture – Pollination Expansion Program The NSBA Secretary and I had an interesting meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, the Honourable Keith Colwell, on 15 Jan. He is quite interested in increasing the number of hives in Nova Scotia by 10,000 or so, to the 31,000 required for pollination of the corps here. This is a significant challenge that will take a few years to accomplish and will require new beekeepers to take up that challenge as well as we old crusty ones. Some of the items under discussion are grants to new beekeepers to acquire bees and equipment provided they can get them through the winter and into pollination the next spring, albeit reimbursement would be a year in arrears. There are still numerous items that need to be worked with the appropriate checks and balances required for public funding. I will keep you posted as this develops. It is an exciting time to be a beekeeper.Nova Scotia Beekeepers Associationhttp://www.nsbeekeepers.ca/ As the President, I need to throw the pitch out there for our organization. We are the voice of Nova Scotia’s beekeepers and we need to increase our membership and ask that if you want to become a beekeeper, please consider joining. On the left side of the link is a button for “Forms.” At the bottom of the page is the 2015 NSBA Membership Application Form. As well, the NSDA (NS Dept of Ag) New Beekeeper Registration Request form is there which must be filled out in order to keep bees in NS. The NSDA is free and will get you a “Beekeeper Number.” We have our Annual General Meeting at Kingstec Campus of the NSCC in Kentville on 28 Feb. Coffee, crumpets and registration start at 0830 with the meeting commencing at 0930. Our guest speakers include Less Eccles, a renowned Ontario beekeeper and researcher and Paul Vatour from the Canadian Honey Council. In addition, you will be able to meet and mingle with beekeepers who have a phenomenal amount of knowledge and experience. We have numerous items that we have completed and many more to go. Some additional help to accomplish them would be appreciated too.Australian Packages Good news, the packages coming from Australia will have the queen in her cage inside with the bees. This will allow a faster release with less risk. Bee Line For those wanting to rent bees to blueberry growers, the Bee Line is now active.http://perennia.ca/beeline.php I’m all typed out. Thanks, Joe

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